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WATCH: What Israelis think about cutting off water to Palestinians
Since the beginning of June, Israeli authorities have reduced the water supply to various Palestinian communities in the West Bank. The shortage has led to hardships in private homes, in industry, agriculture and livestock cultivation. So what would regular Israelis do if they had only a limited supply of water? Read more: A West Bank…
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Social TV
July 15, 2016
West Bank village wakes up to no water
The municipal council of Qarawat Bani Hassan was not warned that their water supply was going to be nearly shut off for days, and attempts to get answers from Israel, through the Palestinian Authority, did not bear any fruit. Text and photos by: Ahmad al-Bazz / Activestills.org Last Wednesday, without any prior warning, the majority…
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Activestills
May 26, 2015
Red-Dead pipeline is the wrong answer, politically and environmentally
Pumping Red Sea water into the Dead Sea to save it from drying up ignores environmental consequences, experts warn. Rights groups decry the plan as an ‘attempt to force the Palestinian population to consent to their own dispossession.’ By Keren Simons Israel and Jordan last Thursday signed a historic agreement to cooperate over their shared bodies…
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March 5, 2015
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Palestinians in East Jerusalem go 10 months without water
Israel refuses to connect four neighborhoods in its self-declared capital to running water. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in East Jerusalem have been cut off from a regular supply of running water for nearly a year due to to their location beyond Israel’s separation barrier. Despite their location within the boundaries of Israel’s self-declared capital,…
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Mairav Zonszein
January 18, 2015
E. Jerusalem Palestinians demand running water be restored
In areas where nearly 80 percent live under the poverty line, residents are being forced to buy bottled water for drinking, cooking, showering and cleaning. Palestinian East Jerusalem residents turned to Israel’s High Court on Tuesday demanding that running water be restored to their homes, after suffering for three weeks without it. The petition was…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
March 26, 2014
PHOTOS: 13 days without water in East Jerusalem
The East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Ras Shehada, Ras Khamis, Dahyat A’salam and the Shuafat refugee camp, which are cut off from the rest of the city by the separation wall, have gone without running water since March 4. Text: Ryan Rodrick Beiler, Photos: Tali Mayer, Keren Manor, Shiraz Grinbaum / Activestills.org Locals say that Ras Shehada has had…
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Activestills
March 17, 2014
From a Jenin funeral to solidarity in the Jordan Valley: A week in photos – August 15-21
This week: Israeli forces kill a Palestinian in a Jenin raid, villagers return to land invaded by settlers, protesters camp out at Yair Lapid’s house, Palestinians protest the against the occupation and in support of prisoners, an event in France promotes Palestinian culture and activists bring water to deprived Jordan Valley residents. …
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Activestills
August 23, 2013
WATCH: Palestinian village suffers from ongoing water shortage
Because Israel restricts Palestinian access to natural water sources in the West Bank, Palestinians are forced to depend on water allocation by Mekorot, the national water company. But in many West Bank villages, the daily water allocation supplied to residents is much lower than the minimal supply required by the global health monitoring organization. WATCH…
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+972 Magazine
July 3, 2012
Visualizing Occupation: Distribution of Water
Israel controls the access to water from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Its disproportionate allocation of water, the settlements’ takeover of natural springs, and the prohibition against maintaining and constructing water cisterns in the West Bank without Israeli permits make water a sparse commodity for Palestinians. This illustration is the sixth in a series of infographics on Palestinian civilian life…
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+972 Resources
July 1, 2012
WATCH: Access to water in the Arab Bedouin villages
A slideshow prepared by Adalah for the international water day. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLHmEAh35I8&list=PLF5429DCC1ACD214E&[/youtube]
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+972 Magazine
March 29, 2012
Harper’s Magazine confronts Israel’s water wars
Harper’s Magazine recently published a report from the West Bank about Israel’s water wars with Palestinians. Below is a letter Joseph Dana wrote to Harper’s along with additional commentary regarding Ben Ehrenreich’s piece on water. Ben Ehrenreich’s account of the unarmed demonstrations in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh perfectly captures the Palestinians’ everyday…
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Joseph Dana
December 21, 2011
Father in “crying boy” video fined, sentenced to 3 months in prison
Palestinian News Agency: “Water thieve” from Hebron convicted of assaulting soldiers by IDF military court Palestinian news agency Maan reports that Fadel Jaberi, the father of little Khaled Jaberi, was sentenced to three months in Israeli prison. The video of Fadel’s arrest in front of the sobbing four year old Khaled received considerable media attention…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 21, 2010
The story behind the images of the crying boy
Haaretz’s Gidon Levy brings the Jaberi family’s account of the events that led to the images showing Khaled Jabari, aged 4, trying to prevent his father from being taken away by the army. Israel accused the Palestinians of “staging” the scene Last week I posted here the now famous clip of Khaled Jabari, a Palestinian…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 16, 2010
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